self-confident - Story 125509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread filled the air as I opened the back door. There, on the lawn, was the neighbor's dog. This time, it was a Dachshund, digging near my tomatoes. I felt a surge of amusement, but no frustration. I could easily solve this.

I walked toward the dog. I could feel the sun on my face. This dog looked up, and I knew what to do. I bent down, spoke calmly to the dog, and clipped on the leash. A simple fix, that's what this was.

Emotion: self-confident

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.45 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-confident. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-confident stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-confident emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-confident vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.778
`la`	0.550
`l`	0.467
`😎`	0.458
`😉`	0.411

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.961
`L`	-0.538
`😞`	-0.464
`마다`	-0.459
`😣`	-0.458